Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 27, 2020

2: Their secret sauce is closing the monetization and marketing loop to help developers supercharge growth. #3: In its State of Mobile 2020 report, App Annie estimated total mobile advertising spend for 2019 at $190BN; about one year ago, I estimated the size of the mobile gaming advertising market in 2019 to be $100BN.

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Moonmana

JULY 25, 2022

Among the most topical video game industry trends, NFT or play-to-earn approach is the next evolution of game industry secured by blockchain and providing in-game transactions. NFT and blockchain-based games are fuelling the market and opens an enormous potential for industry developers, gaining more popularity among players.

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Game Daily

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Gaming culture has also changed, in the sense that publishers are far less willing to use creative figureheads as marketing fodder. but he declined to offer any details, underlying his determination not to blather to reporters. “‘In days gone by, I would have already announced the whole game design.

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Game Dev Unchained

JULY 5, 2023

As Fink elaborates, “We have some people sometimes we’re just too bad in some topics so we get help from outside… but apart from this, that’s pretty much it. Like 24/7, if you report someone in the game for saying bad words or something, someone will check this and work on this,” Max explained.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 2, 2021

Written by Anette Staloy , co-founder of Women in Games Norway and Chief Marketing Officer at Dirtybit, and Tiffany Keller , Director of Product at Sybo and mentor at Game Changers. Explain what the reporting procedure is, define whom they can talk with and if there is anonymity.

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Game Designing

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Open source projects are a community effort, and If you love GDevelop you can help the project by reporting bugs, writing a tutorial, contributing your own code, and more! A quick search online can help you find hundreds of GDevelop tutorials on any topic or mechanic you want to learn about. Create A Game Without Programming Skills.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 11, 2023

Don't paint with too broad of a brush for this important topic.” - Anonymous Developer from our survey Three-quarters of people who participated in the survey have been in the games industry for over five years while nearly half of the participants in the survey have more than a decade in the games industry. Likely both.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 26, 2017

Whether you contribute to the engine's development via code, bug reports, testing, teaching, developing awesome games or donating to the project, you all participate in making Godot! Now, now, that's enough self-gratification for a day, let's go back to our other topic: the Patreon rewards. And this is also very invigorating.

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Game Refinery

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Teamfight Tactics’ lifetime revenue worldwide (Source: GameRefinery Platform) How MLBB merged MOBA with auto-chess gameplay We’ve written much about the rise of hybridization in the mobile market , which also applies to chess.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 24, 2023

Today, we dive into the critical components of game markets needed to make them fun, and applicable in web 3.0 Designing Game Markets to be Fun Markets are increasingly a component of games. The most storied game markets come from MMOs, like the WoW auction house or Maple Story’s storefronts. The same applies to markets.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Casino Downloads Market Size is Peaking It is clear that the Casino downloads graph above showcases downloads market size stabilising over the past 3 years. No doubt this is a deeply discussed topic for a genre that still shows great returns. Source: Competitive Insights into Social Casino Games, Newzoo Report.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

When it comes to free-to-play games, this consumer is a paying player, and the tools we have for learning more about their needs include marketing research and analytics. Capture a bigger market share? 6) Encourage people to do market research and take an interest in products in adjacent genres. Are we aiming for revenue growth?

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Game Biz

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The year 2022 was a tumultuous one for the world economy, with a number of factors contributing to a volatile market. Mobile Game Monetization in 2022: Navigating the eCPM Decline In the last six months, we’ve shared two posts on the eCPM trend due to the interest our clients and other developers have shown in the topic.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2022

This report wouldn’t be possible without the help from our friends at Sensor Tower. In this analysis, data from China, Korea, and Japan are excluded as this analysis focuses on Western markets only. You’re reading this likely because you’re interested in the mid-core market. Access all previous predictions here.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 12, 2021

If you like it, you will love Naavik’s monthly Blockchain Games report! This report was written by Jimmy Stone , Lars Doucet , Anthony Pecorella , Aaron Bush , Abhimanyu Kumar , from left to right. These are the questions this report attempts to answer. We will revisit this hypothesis when analyzing SLP later in the report.

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Greenheart Games

AUGUST 30, 2018

Our plan was to create a small but fun game to gain experience and test the market. Next, we realized how difficult it would be to be successful on mobile without a big marketing partner so, when Windows 8 (remember Windows 8?) Emails kept flooding in and because of the sudden influx of players so too did the bug reports.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 4, 2020

We will also discuss how the market has evolved in the last 10 years and discuss the implications of this evolution for Supercell. There are only a handful of companies that try to disrupt the market by creating new genres or redefining existing ones. This post is the collaboration of several Deconstructor of Fun members.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 14, 2020

We originally created a taxonomy together with Game Refinery dividing the games market into four different categories: Casual, Mid-Core, Casino and Sports. In 2018 it became clear that nailing down retention and monetisation are not enough to create a successful Match-3 game - marketability became the gatekeeper for scalability.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

While gamers are waiting for a new and high-quality MMO title, Lost Ark finally lands in the Western Gaming market after its initial launch in Korea 3 years ago. With the powerful marketing of Amazon, active user numbers have been in a leading position since the game’s launch on 11 Feb. million (as of 18 Mar). million (as of 18 Mar).

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Game Refinery

JUNE 23, 2022

In our “Introducing Onboarding Best Practises” blog post series, we have so far taken a look at the best practices of player onboarding in terms of storytelling and retention among the top-grossing iOS games across different genres and markets. In this last part, we will dive into new player monetization.

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Sky Betting and Gaming Technology

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

They usually feature short presentations on a single track, as well as guided conversations on a variety of topics. ChAP is a tool that was written by Casey’s team at Netflix which would spin up control and failure-injected services, run experiments against them, and produce reports based off the results of those experiments.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Additionally, about 46% of the total revenue of CCG-Battle games came from key Asian markets of China, Japan, and South Korea, which tend inaccessible by Western games. And this is what we think… The Launch and the Market To properly contextualize Marvel Snap’s early success, it’s first important to understand the market space it’s in.

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Sky Betting and Gaming Technology

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Web performance has a massive influence on the quality of a users experience and as such has always been a big topic in web development. In his talk, Simon acknowledges that third-party content, though a source of revenue, can become a source of irritation that creates friction between development and marketing teams.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 8, 2024

This is particularly if compared to the deck usage influence and engagement generated by similar features like Marvel Snap locations, which is possibly the best execution of the rotative bonuses concept in the market. In fact, the Toy Machine is the only way to acquire a few loot box exclusive minis (SP units). Not the best deal.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

This week, we get into one of the hottest topics, whether the App Store’s NFT guidelines will hurt or help blockchain games. Apple’s latest updates to the App Store Review Guidelines shed some light on this positioning while creating even more questions about the topic. In Today’s Email ?

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